Any suggestions from anyone? Here's the deal:
We started 5 years ago with 27 gung ho masters swimmers--of very mixed ability. There are 2 of us left standing...
We work out with the kids who are trying to maintain fitness for highschool swim season or are trying to get into more challenging age group workouts. Again mixed ability.
$173 per trimester
4 workouts a week..ALL at 7:45 pm.
The triathlon group in town has 60 + members.
Triathletes get discouraged because of the stroke work
One of our coachs is great, the other is only fair.
6 coaches in 5 years.
What are we doing wrong? The program is on life support!
PS: Personally, I am never going to stop, ever.
Thanks everyone...just to give everyone an idea of our "Masters" practice here are just some of the swimmers and their abilities that our coaches have to juggle (not easy):
10 year old age groupers who missed practice
15 year old high school swimmers who missed practice (can come in on 1:15 over and over again...) some AA times.
40 year old masters swimmers (can come in on 1:15 1-2 times and then fall off the pace)
40 year old triathletes who can barely swim but are trying very hard to improve.
40 year old fitness swimmers who can swim 30 minutes and then get out or float.
a guy who is training for an ironman (ex-collegiate swimmer).
Basically, everyone is in their lanes working hard so we need a social event just to know who they are. It will have to be milk and cookies too because my lane mates are always my friend's kids.
Make master swimming to be mainly a social club. The workouts are secondary to the group when this happens the club will grow. I was there for the Sunday morning coffee and the gathering of the group. The group also had a pub night once a month that was fun. No one ever got sloshed. We had 3 workouts a week and the rest was lap swimming during other hours.
The only thing I did not like was the 4 stroke work outs with everyone having to do strokes I did not want to participate in.
